Education

Doctor of Philosophy: Applied Economics & Management (Expected 2024)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Master of Science: Applied Economics & Management (2020)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Bachelor of Arts: Mathematics & Economics (2014)
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

Research Interests

Primary: Public Economics & Applied Econometrics

Secondary: Economics & Indigenous peoples

Special Committee

Ravi Kanbur, Chris Forman, Seth Sanders, and Dan Black (University of Chicago)

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant to

Dr. Seth Sanders (Cornell University, spring 2022-)

Dr. Bradley Rickard (Cornell University, summers 2020-2022)

Dr. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea (Cornell University, spring 2020)

Dr. Jennifer Ifft (Cornell University, fall 2019)

Other Research Experience

Senior Research Assistant, Brookings Institution (Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy), Washington DC (Jan. 2016 - July 2017)

Research Assistant, Resources for the Future, Washington DC (May 2014 - Dec. 2015)

Awards & Honors

Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant ($10,000) for the project “COVID-driven technology adoption and worker inequality in the US” (spring 2022)

Center for Teaching Innovation Graduate Teaching Fellowship ($2,000), Cornell University (2022-2023)

Graduate Teaching Assistant – Outstanding Service Award 2021, Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University (spring 2021)

Serve in Place Grant (for a community service project) from Cornell University (spring 2021)

Selected Work in Progress

Dissertation research

“Own and dynamic complementarity long-term educational effects of the WIC program”.

“COVID-driven technology adoption and worker inequality in the US”, with Bledi Taska.

Other research

“Destination categories, store choice, and beer distribution laws”, with Bradley Rickard and Timothy Richards.

Understanding the Native American tribal disenrollment epidemic: An IV approach

Peer Reviewed Publications

Energy income and farm viability: Evidence from USDA farm survey data”, with Travis Grout and Jennifer Ifft, Energy Policy, Volume 155, August 2021.

Distribution of emissions allowances and the use of auction revenues in the European Union Emissions Trading System”, with Åsa Löfgren, Dallas Burtraw, and Markus Wråke, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 12(2), 2018.

Conferences

Presenter

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Conference, 2020

Applied Geography Conference, 2020

Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, 2021

Discussant

Governance, Liberty, and Prosperity for American Indians Workshop co-sponsored by the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and The Law and Economic Center, Antonin School of Law, George Mason University, and funded by the Searle Freedom Trust, 2021

Activities

Volunteer for the T. Merrill Shipherd Committee Board, Tompkins County United Way, Ithaca, NY (January 2020-)

Certified Translator / Interpreter for the Translator-Interpreter Program, Cornell University Public Service Center (spring 2021-)

Other

Special Sworn Status preliminary approval (March 2021 - )